Using Bulk sms for Church

Posted by Felix Okoli on Wednesday June 12, 2013 at 16:17:35:

One of the coolest things which bulk sms allows you to do is keeping your social group informed and when it comes to a religious group or community like a church, there is hardly any better way to keep parishioners and members informed than by using text messages.

In Church, there are quite a large number of people, especially for established communities. What does a pastor or ministry do when they want to send an important message or reminded to over 2000 people? It could be a lot of pain sending it to people one by one but composing a single message and sending it to the group can make the job really easier.

With a bulk sms account, you could easily do that by first ensuring that your fellow brothers and sisters are subscribed to the service via their mobile phone numbers(perhaps during registration) and then you would just send them a single message all at once.

Bulk sms makes the job of keeping a Church community informed easier and still minimizes the cost while at the same time encouraging fuller participation at events. It is much faster, cheaper and easier to send a single message to multiple recipients than making a voice or even conference call to all of them.

Another benefit of using bulk sms to send messages to people at a social group is that it creates a recorded entry such that your members can always look up their inbox to remind themselves of previous messages unlike a situation whereby they just listen to an oral announcement which many people tend to forget almost immediately after the Sunday service. I personally don't remember most of the announcements I hear at church and that would have been much effective if it was recorded in my sms inbox.

So, if you've got a large church community that you want to help stay active and well informed, making use of a bulk sms service can do the trick more effectively at a time when mobile phones are becoming an important part of human life.